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Antifascist protesters dressed in black try to de-arrest one of their activists from a line of police.

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Bristol Antifascists - Interview

Bristol Antifascists is a non-hierarchical group opposing far-right activity at the street level. We sit down with one of them to learn about the discipline, solidarity and compassion needed for this work.

Adam Quarshie
Adam Quarshie

People Just Do Something

Two individuals smiling at the camera, standing close together. One is wearing a 'Bristol Cable' branded T-shirt and the other a plain green T-shirt. The text 'PEOPLE JUST DO SOMETHING' is displayed across the front. In the background is a grainy image of high-rise buildings.

Listen: People Just Do Something, with Palestinian activist Iyad Burnat on the power of nonviolent resistance in the face of genocide

Priyanka Raval George Colwey
Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins, Priyanka Raval and George Colwey

Opinion

A group of protesters, wearing protective masks, some standing holding banners and some sitting on the grass in front of a cathedral.

Being a Crip is a radicalising experience

Teodor Hykel
Olga and Maria at a recent Altered States event

Features

Vladimir, vapes and defending democracy: when the Cable met Pussy Riot in BS3

Celebrating the subversive, we spent an evening with the legendary Russian dissidents to get behind the balaclavas to discuss all things protest.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval
A crowd of counter protesters by Castle Park, with one holding up a placard saying 'Fuck off fascists'

Features

Long Read: Bristol took a stand against the far right, and it’s preparing to do it all over again

Priyanka Raval Sean Morrison
Priyanka Raval and Sean Morrison

Opinion

Colston 4 judgment: ’The government is tearing up our protest rights’

Katy Watts
Katy Watts (Liberty)

Police and Crime bill

5 key moments in history that led to the Police and Crime Act

Now the government has restricted peaceful protest, criminal defence solicitor Matt Foot explains the history of violent policing at protests and outlines how we got here.

Matt Foot

Reports

‘It’s what God is asking of me’: Bristol reverend, 80, will risk arrest again to raise awareness of climate crisis

Supporters cheered as Reverend Sue Parfitt had a conviction overturned by a judge.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Features

Andreas Malm: ‘Why climate activists should engage in acts of sabotage’

Environmental protesters need to rethink their tactics, argues a Swedish scholar of human ecology who came to Bristol this week.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Police and Crime bill

Man charged with riot and arson says police escalated protest into violence

He is accused of trying to set police vehicles on fire during the Kill the Bill demo on 21 March, but blamed police for turning the protest violent.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Investigations

Riot charges handed to Bristol Kill the Bill protesters are rare in recent history of unrest in Britain

Protesters face up to 10 years in prison after being charged with the most serious of public order offences. Lawyers comment on what this means and how recent riots and protests have been dealt with by the criminal justice system.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Interviews

‘Morally right but legally guilty’: Meet the GP turned environmental activist self-representing in court

Diana Warner says the justice system is unjust in the battle against the climate crisis

Fatima Hudoon
Fatima Hudoon
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